I’m scouring the internet this morning looking for something interesting to do a blog post on. These posts everyday are hard to do without becoming too focused on a particular subject, interest, or area of research, so anybody with any ideas on what I should write about going forward, please feel free to comment. I figured as I was clicking around that I should share my observations from the grand old World Wide Web. There’s some fun stuff out there.
10:02: I read this story on realignment and decided that realignment isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Not with all the government, red tape, and crying generated by today’s media. Stupid Bloggers…
10:09: I added pictures to this post and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of pictures taken from my DROID.
10:14: Read this article about the Pedro Cerrano All Stars. Apparently Alfonso Soriano is the captain of the Pedro team. Dude can kill a fastball but whiffing so often against curveballs (25.6 percent, 11.6 percent MLB average) and sliders (20.9 percent, 13.6 percent MLB average) that he could solve the world’s energy crisis with wind power.
10:18: I look at the fangraphs rZips projections. Don’t know what they mean. Spend about 4 minutes clicking around at random numbers and players before I remember that I don’t know what these things mean.
10:22 Fantasy Baseball time. I’m really disappointed in my offense so far. Spend a couple of minutes quantifying how bad my offense is this year. But, I’m hitting .302 this week so not all is lost.
10:26: Adam Lind is hitting .339 with 15 homers. Go figure.
10:33 The cover story at nytimes.com is about Mr. Graff, the world’s leading high end Big Diamond retailer. I make it through about 4 paragraphs before I’m overwhelmed by the pretentiousness of the millions being freely discussed on the exchange of shiny rocks. $12.4 million for an unpolished diamond (look at it. It looks stupid)? I have better things to do with my time than read about people who have nothing better to do with their money.
10:41: Pandora internet radio is now on the New York Stock Exchange. $13.32 a share.
10:43: Ny Times also offers up this tidbit on dogs. New research suggests that dogs are always watching their human companions and are constantly under training. “Dogs don’t have to read our minds. Dogs read our behavior,” said Dr. Monique Udell. “That might be why dogs are so successful in human homes.”
10:43: Ted Williams walked at a 20.6% rate. Thats a lot… actually most ever. Even more than Barry Bonds’ 20.3% rate that deserves an asterisk because of all of his IBB.
10:46: Men In Black III comes out next May.
10:53: A-Rod is still owed $186 million! Do we realize just how much money that is? The guy could get hurt and never play another pitch and still make the $186 million. For as lucky as this guy is, I’d rather see him act like he’s just won the lottery than the melancoly, Lebron-who-just-lost-the-championship, much too serious look that always appears on his face.
10:54: Other bad contracts: Alfonso Soriano is still owed $65 million, Barry Zito $57 million, and Jason Bay $45 million.
Hopefully, you enjoyed your one stop internet surfing for the day. I got it all accomplished for you in one spot. Keep visiting offthebenchbaseball.com for more interesting, entertaining, and insightful posts than the one you just read.
-Sean Morash
